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If your business relies on an owner or other employee to manage HR tasks, rather than employing a certified, dedicated HR expert, you might be experiencing some unforeseen risks, including wasted time and decreased morale. Check out the infographic to learn more about the risks of ad hoc HR management, as well as what you can do to free your company from this burden so you can focus on what you do best.

The sponsor named below commissioned Ardent Partners to write this report. While the report topic In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive greater value through sourcing and procurement. For Chief Procurement Officers ("CPOs") and other supply management leaders, collaboration has taken on many new and innovative forms over the years, causing these executives to leverage new (and, in some cases, existing) processes, relationships, and technologies to enhance compliance, decrease risk, and increase savings. One such business process, contract management, has been reborn with digital, automated features that can shift the way procurement teams collaborate, mitigate risk, drive performance, and realize greater savings for the enterprise.

By now, most organizations are clear on the advantages and benefits of wireless data solutions in the enterprise: namely, increased productivity, improved efficiency and improved response times resulting in decreased costs and increased revenue opportunities. But with these advantages come risks, and most have to do with controlling the data contained on wireless devices and the networks and applications to which they connect.

In today’s economy, companies that stay in place fall behind. Businesses that fail to decrease their dependence on legacy infrastructure risk stagnation and losing ground to competitors. Thankfully, advances in virtualization and emerging cloud technologies can deliver the agility that today’s IT organizations need to compete, but only if selected and deployed wisely. Learn how you can extend your existing virtualization environment into the cloud to maximize the benefits of both, and get some advice on how to get started in paving the way toward an effective and efficient outcome.

In this white paper we will explore the leasing option for technology asset acquisitions and IBM’s particular suitability to this market. We will also use several case studies to provide examples of how this works including the toy company LEGO and the telecommunications services provider, Packet One. By the end of the paper you will be able to see the leasing proposition clearly and understand the advantage of doing business with IBM.

Banking, insurance, securities and investment firms are challenged to keep employees, broker dealers, investors and others current in a world of constant change. Enabling video and mobile communications is the most efficient way to clearly communicate and stay ahead of competitors and changing regulations. Discover how 8 out of the top 10 US financial institutions use Brainshark communications to increase compliance, decrease risks, and lower the costs of communications.

Hear real world examples from service virtualization and mainframe experts about the way service virtualization can enable continuous integration to increase quality, reduce cost, and decrease project risk.

In today’s economy, companies that stay in place fall behind. Businesses that fail to decrease their dependence on legacy infrastructure risk stagnation and losing ground to competitors. Thankfully, advances in virtualization and emerging cloud technologies can deliver the agility that today’s IT organizations need to compete, but only if selected and deployed wisely. Learn how you can extend your existing virtualization environment into the cloud to maximize the benefits of both, and get some advice on how to get started in paving the way toward an effective and efficient outcome.

The sponsor named below commissioned Ardent Partners to write this report. While the report topic In 2015, collaboration is the name of the game in procurement and frequently entails working with key internal stakeholders (like line-of-business managers and legal departments) or preferred suppliers to drive greater value through sourcing and procurement. For Chief Procurement Officers ("CPOs") and other supply management leaders, collaboration has taken on many new and innovative forms over the years, causing these executives to leverage new (and, in some cases, existing) processes, relationships, and technologies to enhance compliance, decrease risk, and increase savings. One such business process, contract management, has been reborn with digital, automated features that can shift the way procurement teams collaborate, mitigate risk, drive performance, and realize greater savings for the enterprise.

The need
Carson Tahoe Health needed insights to convince its board that an outpatient palliative care program could help address its higher-thanaverage mortality rates and help decrease the risk of future financial impact from those rates
The solution
The healthcare system used IBM® CareDiscovery to track and analyze end-stage patient mortality and related length of stay, readmissions, utilization and costs in key disease groups—by comparing those who participated in trial inpatient palliative care and those who did not
The benefit
The analysis was used to demonstrate to the system’s board that an outpatient palliative care service line was viable in terms of both cost savings and quality-of-care improvement

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